25 February 2008

Top of the line storm

Alice likes to watch Mom or me playing Guitar Hero. I like to torture Alice by changing songs to be about her, so I started singing to Rock You Like a Hurricane “rock you like an Alice-cane”. Alice didn’t like that, until I explained that

  • A hurricane is a powerful, destructive storm.
  • A hypercane is an even more powerful and destructive storm.
  • But an Alice-cane is the pinnacle of destructive force.

Then, Alice thought it was a cool variant. Now she sings it herself, now and then, although she wouldn’t sing it for her teachers at school. She even got in to an argument at dinner about it, denying the existence of Charles-canes and Corwin-canes, because nothing was more powerful than an Alice-cane.

P.S. I tried showing Alice some videos of the actual bands performing some of the songs, but that rapidly degenerated in to Alice wanting to see videos of people playing Guitar Hero, which I wouldn’t play, even for my favorite daughter. That did not end well.

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